Eight authors, whose works range from biography to suspense, will be featured in the fall “
Evenings With Authors” series, presented by the Thurber House.

The season will run from late August through December in the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E.
Broad St.

The schedule:

• Aug. 27: Maggie Shipstead — An affluent wedding is the setting for strife and discontent,
depicted with humor and pathos in Shipstead’s debut novel,
Seating Arrangements, published in May.

•Sept. 11: Peter Heller —
The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic tale published in May, is the first novel by Heller, a
well-known adventure writer.

•Sept. 16: Sherrilyn Kenyon — In
Styxx, the next installment in her “Dark-Hunter” fantasy series, Kenyon tells the story of
Acheron’s twin brother and one of Earth’s most powerful beings. The novel will be published on
Sept. 3.

•Sept. 26: John Searles — The author of
Boy Still Missing and
Strange but True returns with
Help for the Haunted, a ghost story about a girl haunted by the murder of her parents. The
novel will arrive on Sept. 17.

•Oct. 2: A. Scott Berg — The Pulitzer Prize-winning author turns his attention to the
28th president, Woodrow Wilson. The biography will be published on Sept. 10.

•Oct. 14: Laurie R. King — The creator of the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mystery series
will publish the stand-alone novel
The Bones of Paris on Sept. 10. The murder mystery is set in the City of Light during the
Jazz Age.

•Nov. 14: Martin Cruz Smith — Arkady Renko, the hero of
Gorky Park, returns in a novel set in modern Russia. In
Tatiana, the title character, a fearless reporter, falls to her death. Renko is on the
trail. The novel will arrive on Nov. 12.

•Dec. 11: Chris Matthews — The host of MSNBC’s
Hardball and NBC’s
The Chris Matthews Show looks at the friendship between President Ronald Reagan and
Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill in
Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, to be published on Oct. 1. Matthews worked as O’N
eill’s chief of staff for six years.

All events will begin at 7:30 p.m., closing with a reception and book signing. Several ticket
options are available, as are pre-event Author’s Table dinners, with limited seating.